PETROGLYPH Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Volume 51, Number 10 www.AzArchSoc.org June 2015 2015 AAS ANNUAL MEETING HOSTED BY THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER CHAPTER SPRINGERVILLE, OCT 2-4, 2015 The Little Colorado River Chapter, Springerville, will host the 2015 Annual Meeting on the weekend of Oct. 2-4. The Chapter Officers’ Meeting will take place on Friday evening, October 2, and the State Meeting will be held on October 3, with field trips scheduled for the afternoon of October 3 and on Sunday, October 4. The meeting will be held at the Springerville Heritage Center, 418 East Main Street, Springerville, with all meals (breakfast, social hour and dinner) next door at the Rusty Cactus, 318 E Main, Springerville. Please fill out the registration form on page 2 and send it in as soon as possible. Because October is hunting and leaf-peeping season in the White Mountains, the chapter advises us to make lodging arrangements early. --Glenda A. Simmons, State Chair 2015 AGUA FRIA WET-DRY MAPPING The Friends of the AFNM Invite Volunteers to Participate in the 8th Annual Wet-Dry Mapping of the Agua Fria River June 6, 8:30 am-1 pm: Training for the Wet-Dry Mapping of the Agua Fria River. Training and orientation will occur at the BLM office, 21605 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix. Teams of two-four persons for each segment will be assigned for the 17 segments to be mapped. Clipboards, data sheets, GPS units, and safety information and liabil- ity waivers will be distributed. The DeLorme tracking devices will be distributed at the BLM the week of June 15 (details to be provided later). To register and attend the training, go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/ s/5D3P86V. June 20, 2015 Wet-Dry Mapping Day: The teams should complete their mapping and return to this year's Base Station at the Black Canyon City Heritage Park by 10:30 am for the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Monument. Contact Tim Flood if you have any questions: 602-265-4325 eve. 602-618-1853 cell. IN THIS ISSUE… FROM THE EDITOR 2: State Meeting Registration Form 2: Special Events at MNA The 3rd and final installment of Dr. Andrew L. Christenson’s presentation for 3: Part 3, Defining Prescott Culture 5: Chapter News the AAS 50th Anniversary Celebration on Oct. 25, 2014, at the Pueblo Grande 10: Upcoming Events, Pecos Conf. Museum in Phoenix, Defining Prescott Culture: The Co-production of Ar- 11: Arizona Museum Exhibits chaeological Knowledge by Amateur and Professional Archaeologists in 11: Meeting Calendar \ Next deadline is 5 pm, Central Arizona, begins on page 3. Wednesday, Aug. 19th T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / June 2015 REGISTRATION FOR AAS STATE MEETING SPRINGERVILLE, OCT 2-4, 2015 Name (s) ______________________________________________________________________________ Chapter _______________________ Phone ___________________ Email __________________________ Meals: Dinner Buffet at Rusty Cactus. Number of Meals _______ Meals are included in the registration fee of $40 per member and include a continental breakfast and dinner buffet at the Rusty Cactus. Registration and payment is required of all attendees. Return this form with your check by Sept. 18, 2015 to: Carol Farnsworth 768 W. School Bus Rd. Eager, AZ 85925 Silent Auction: Items are needed for the Silent Auction. Donations from all members are welcome. Cash and checks only. Contact person for auction TBA. Tentative Schedule: Fri, Oct 2, 5:30 – 7 pm. Meet and Greet for all attendees at Springerville Heritage Center. Drinks and snacks provided. Chapter presidents will meet during this time. Sat, Oct 3, 8 am Continental breakfast at Rusty Cactus – 318 E Main, Springerville Silent auction opens, registration for tours 9 – 10:30 am AAS Annual Meeting 11 – 1 pm Lunch on your own 1 pm Tours start from Springerville Heritage Center 5 pm Rusty Cactus open for social hour – alcoholic drinks on your own 6 pm Buffet dinner; menu TBA 7 pm Speaker – TBA Sun, Oct 4 Optional tours ****MAKE LODGING ARRANGEMENTS EARLY*** October is hunting and leaf-peeping season in the White Mountains! SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA July 4-5, 9 am-5 pm, MNA, Flagstaff, Festival: 82nd Annual Hopi Festival of Arts & Culture. Taste Hopi bread and piki baked outside in ovens. Watch Hopi pottery being shaped, painted, and traditionally fired. Walk the Museum’s Rio de Flag Nature Trail with a Hopi medicine woman. Learn about Hopi clans and clan migration, and how the tribe is working to preserve language and agricultural traditions. Aug. 1-2, 9 am-5 pm, MNA, Flagstaff, Festival: 66th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture. More than 100 of the finest Diné artists display and demonstrate their innovative expressions of traditional art forms. Meet award winning painters and renowned weavers. Enjoy hoop and social dances, and traditional and modern Native music with groups like the Pollen Trail Dancers and Blackfire. Learn from cultural experts about customs and practices families are using to keep traditions strong. Explore the tribe’s intricate language with a Navajo linguist, and come to understand many ancient legends and traditions. Hike with a Navajo ethnobo- tanist and learn the Diné uses of local plant life. 2 June 2015 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Part 3: Defining Prescott Culture by Andrew L. Christenson Barnett was committed to publishing everything he did, but he took a very strict line on what should and shouldn’t be in a site report - a report should contain descriptions of artifacts and architectural features, but should not contain “oblique perspectives,” by which he meant interpretations of what actually was going on at a site. He felt that such interpretation should be done in other for- mats. He wrote a novel on prehistoric people at Fitzmaurice Ruin after digging that site and also published integrative books on the Prescott Culture and on Franklin Barnett Southwestern artifacts, but his site reports stuck to what he found. Towards the end of his active period in Prescott, Barnett taught two classes at Yavapai College – a Southwest Prehistory class and a field class. He was an inspiring teacher and several of his students made strong commit- ments to archaeology and two became professionals. In addition, he and Ken Austin, another retiree who was doing research in the area, inspired the creation of the Yavapai Chapter of the AAS, the second AAS chapter to form in Prescott (the previous Prescott Chapter only lasted from 1968 to 1972). The Yavapai Chapter and its activities over the next 37 years represent the third and current phase of defining Prescott Culture. The chapter moved quickly into doing fieldwork. Louie Curtis, a retiree who took an archae- ology class from Franklin Barnett and decided to get an archaeology degree, was the first chapter president and selected the partly pothunted Storm site as the first dig. Nearly all other sites the chapter has excavated were threatened by development and not protected by environmental laws. Even before analysis of the Storm site was completed, development threatened a site not too far away. The pro- ject at the Sundown site provides an excellent example of the interaction and cooperation of amateurs and pro- fessionals in excavation and analysis. Although the site supervisor was amateur Chuck Higgins, Bob Lister was around for professional advice and a couple of professional archaeologists helped in the digging. Lab work was done by 128 people worked in the lab, several of whom were professionals. As a teenager, Tom Motsinger worked on the excavation and analysis and was inspired to become a professional archaeologist on the basis of his association with the Yavapai Chapter. Sundown Site Excavation, Analysis, and Publication Activity Work by Work by Pro- Advice from Amateurs fessionals Professionals Excavation X X X Ceramics X X Lithics X Shell X X Human Remains X Faunal Bone X X Copper Bells X X Magnetometry X Aerial Reconnaissance X Pollen X Obsidian X Radiocarbon Dating X Basketry X Photography X Publication X X (continued on page 4) 3 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / June 2015 (Continued from page 3) Amateurs tackled the more labor-intensive analyses of artifacts, while professionals were involved in some of the more specialized tasks. Chapter members trained by Peter Pilles of the Coconino National Forest and Al Dit- tert from ASU did the ceramic analysis. Some chapter members also attended a pottery making workshop and received training in vessel reconstruction from Franklin Barnett and his wife Joan, who had become an expert in that activity. Bob Grossman, a retired nuclear engineer, had contacts that enabled him to get the two copper bells from the site chemically analyzed and he wrote an interpretation of the results. Ken Howell obtained a magne- tometer and conducted a survey of the site that was unsuccessful. Joanne Cline, who was also active with ceram- ic analysis, took an archaeozoology class and did the faunal analysis with the help of many professional con- tacts. Soil samples were collected for pollen analysis but the results did not justify continuing the work. Charles Merbs of ASU was a major professional contact because human skeletal remains were abundant at the site. He and his students did the basic analysis and also recorded and published about instances of pathology. Aerial re- connaissance by another professional archaeologist, showed a possible wall that was not visible on the surface. Of course, publication of the results involved the efforts of amateurs and professionals as well. The editorial work of Alan Ferg, then editor of the Arizona Archaeologist, where the site report was eventually published, was critical.